Hunt the Truth- Episode 4

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Episode 4, with Keegan Michael-Key. Special appearance from Cobie Smulders.


My observations: looks like ONI is dangerously close to a police state on planets where they have a hegemony. Ben seemed surprised by the fact that he was being watched/listened to; he's been in the Outer Colonies, so ONI probably isn't listening as closely there. What are the "rumblings in deep space?" Is he just talking about a rumor mill, or something else? Are we abusing slipspace? Is it Locke going on a rampage destroying Covenant remnants, trying to find Chief? The hell is up with the obsidian walkway?


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I really think they're dragging the story out too much. We already know about John's kidnapping at age 6 and the death of his flash clone. We already know ONI are some shady motherfuckers that are probably going to be more overtly villainous in the upcoming releases. They should be using this to explore facets of the lore that we don't already know, and instead they're giving us a (seemingly incompetent) reporter digging up established information at a painfully slow pace.


 
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I'd wager rumblings in deep space and slipspace activity is Forerunner related. Machinery waking up and so on, going active.

Locke's probably out in the blurred lines doing digging, as you said, dealing with Covenant remnants.

Obsidian walkway is technology of some kind, sound dampers or barriers, wouldn't be surprised if it's looted tech from somewhere.


 
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I'm really confused on that last part.


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I really think they're dragging the story out too much. We already know about John's kidnapping at age 6 and the death of his flash clone. We already know ONI are some shady motherfuckers that are probably going to be more overtly villainous in the upcoming releases. They should be using this to explore facets of the lore that we don't already know, and instead they're giving us a (seemingly incompetent) reporter digging up established information at a painfully slow pace.
well yeah, obviously we all already know everything, that's what gives this story dramatic irony. the thing here is that this is something that's supposed to be a big secret in their universe- having ben blow this story wide open will have HUGE social/cultural effects in ONI-controlled areas. i think sully wants ben to be the one to expose this, but he has to tread lightly and sort of guide him to the truth instead of leading him there directly. and ben's not really a bad reporter at all- he has some great sources due to being in the outer colonies for so long. the only negatives are that he's a little too careless (using Waypoint- he didnt respect the hegemony of the ONI surveillance state until after that) and rusty after being out of the picture for so long.


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I'm really confused on that last part.
the part where he steps foot onto the obsidian walkway, or something else?


 
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I'm really confused on that last part.
the part where he steps foot onto the obsidian walkway, or something else?
The walkway


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I really think they're dragging the story out too much. We already know about John's kidnapping at age 6 and the death of his flash clone. We already know ONI are some shady motherfuckers that are probably going to be more overtly villainous in the upcoming releases. They should be using this to explore facets of the lore that we don't already know, and instead they're giving us a (seemingly incompetent) reporter digging up established information at a painfully slow pace.
well yeah, obviously we all already know everything, that's what gives this story dramatic irony. the thing here is that this is something that's supposed to be a big secret in their universe- having ben blow this story wide open will have HUGE social/cultural effects in ONI-controlled areas. i think sully wants ben to be the one to expose this, but he has to tread lightly and sort of guide him to the truth instead of leading him there directly. and ben's not really a bad reporter at all- he has some great sources due to being in the outer colonies for so long. the only negatives are that he's a little too careless (using Waypoint- he didnt respect the hegemony of the ONI surveillance state until after that) and rusty after being out of the picture for so long.

I don't really believe that exposing the SPARTAN program would have any significant political or cultural impact. It unquestionably saved the human species, and they've already effectively pinned the blame on Halsey while simultaneously moving the program to a volunteer basis. I think the time for exploring the ethics of the Spartans was many years ago in the novels, but they failed in that aspect. At this point, after more than a decade of playing as Spartans and seeing them as the baddest mother fuckers around, whether it was wrong or right to kidnap 6 year olds is not a very compelling storyline. I guess others see it as such, but I don't.


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I really think they're dragging the story out too much. We already know about John's kidnapping at age 6 and the death of his flash clone. We already know ONI are some shady motherfuckers that are probably going to be more overtly villainous in the upcoming releases. They should be using this to explore facets of the lore that we don't already know, and instead they're giving us a (seemingly incompetent) reporter digging up established information at a painfully slow pace.
well yeah, obviously we all already know everything, that's what gives this story dramatic irony. the thing here is that this is something that's supposed to be a big secret in their universe- having ben blow this story wide open will have HUGE social/cultural effects in ONI-controlled areas. i think sully wants ben to be the one to expose this, but he has to tread lightly and sort of guide him to the truth instead of leading him there directly. and ben's not really a bad reporter at all- he has some great sources due to being in the outer colonies for so long. the only negatives are that he's a little too careless (using Waypoint- he didnt respect the hegemony of the ONI surveillance state until after that) and rusty after being out of the picture for so long.

I don't really believe that exposing the SPARTAN program would have any significant political or cultural impact. It unquestionably saved the human species, and they've already effectively pinned the blame on Halsey while simultaneously moving the program to a volunteer basis.

You know I tried saying this on Banpoint, and the waytards completely misunderstood and started fighting over if Karen Travis's books were bad or if the Kilo 5 books sucked
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